The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Michigan GOP Honors
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Gene Miller calls Max Fisher a Detroit legend.
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Damon Keith explains how Henry Ford and Max Fisher were the leaders in Detroit in bringing the community back together after the Riots.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Max Fisher and other Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters in 1965.
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
New Detroit article
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.